Ready, Miami (and South Florida) in general? Here’s a selection of weekend picks, from transit parties to feminist movies to classic hip-hop. FRIDAY, MARCH 8 AND SATURDAY, MARCH 9 The Purple Line Pop-Up Transit Station and Party @ NE 2nd Ave. an NE 36th St. Imagine a better-connected Miami, where you could take public transit [...]
Sometimes you can judge a book by its cover, or a band by its title. Colorful, genre-specific monikers like Pig Destroyer, Electric Wizard, and Satanic Warmaster make it easy enough for even an outside observer to get an idea of what kind of aural beatdown lies ahead, and we can comfortably add Miami’s gnarliest vice peddlers, Shitstorm, [...]
Five minutes into a performance by Pool Party, the local act that claims to be from Iceland, and it’s clear where the group’s happily sloppy, punk rock allegiances lie. Each song is short, fast, and almost aggressively unserious, yet catchy enough to keep you from rolling your eyes. A song like “Raised By Wolves,” for [...]
When drummer and local music scene fixture Nabedi Osorio decamped to Los Angeles last year, it seemed like the end of the State Of, her act with vocalist and pianist Steph Taylor. Technically, both insisted the popular, New-Wave-inflected, indie-pop group hadn’t broken up — but suddenly, there was a lot less of Taylor’s signature expressive [...]
A meteor in Russia? Asteroid narrowly missing the rest of us? A freeze warning for South Florida? Gloom and rain? We narrowly missed the 2012 destruction cutoff, but perhaps end times are still upon us. Considering all that, maybe this is your last weekend to get out! You never know. So if you venture out, [...]
Advertised as “A Tale of Sluts and Bolts,” in which a man rebuilds his dead fiancée with the body parts of prostitutes, Frank Henenlotter’s Frankenhooker (playing Sunday as part of the monthly “Splatter-Rama” at Cinema Paradiso) on the surface reads like it could just as well be called Fratboystein. The film’s original selling point, a [...]
For some artists, a singular, specific vision compels the creative spirit, and many labor an entire career towards delivering an ideal iteration, or satisfying some perfection of a concept. Then, there are people like Bruce Lamont. Lamont is a multi-instrumentalist, a jack of many trades, and a scholar of what could be considered to be [...]
Another weekend’s come around, and so has another series of suggestions for things to do on the cheap. We’ve kept it extra budget-friendly this time: The most expensive event on this list costs $5, and even then, it’s kind of optional. Read on for the recommendations. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8 DWNTWN Concert Series with Suenalo and [...]
Last year, dance music icon Fatboy Slim celebrated the return of his Big Beach Boutique festival, a summer event that helped define the aesthetic of his Big Beat movement in the ’90s. This bigger, better edition hit the new Amex Stadium in his native Brighton, England for a two-day stand, packing in tens of thousands [...]
You already know this: while earning your college degree was informative and pleasant enough, plenty of us head in a different direction. Or maybe the experience wasn’t so awesome or helpful, but we’re sticking, steadfast and stubborn, to what we set out for in the first place. Joshua Miller, the executive director and founder of [...]
Venezuela has been in the media lately: following the death of Hugo Chávez, his chosen successor, Nicolas Maduro, beat challenger Henrique Capriles in the current election for presidency. It was a miniscule margin of a win—about 50.7%–and as of this write-up, a contested verdict. But if you’re the average United Statesian, you are less aware [...]
